Lot 1011

SIGNED HENRY LOWNDES (D. 1842), PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA DECORATED STONEWARE JAR

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SIGNED HENRY LOWNDES (D. 1842), PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA DECORATED STONEWARE JAR, salt-glazed, approximately one-gallon capacity, ovoid form with flat-top rounded rim, beaded neck ring, and applied arched handles. Slip-trailed and brushed cobalt decorations including script reading "H. Lowndes / Maker / Petersburg Va / 1841" to one side, reverse featuring a quintuple boll cotton plant, and looped shoulder design, additional cobalt to handle terminals. Henry Lowndes, Petersburg, VA. Dated 1841. 9 3/8" H, 5 7/8" D rim.
Literature: Decoration parallels Hunter (ed.) - Ceramics in America 2013, p. 248, fig. 74, "The Remarkable 19th-Century Stoneware of Virginia's Lower James River Valley" by Kurt C. Russ, Robert Hunter, Oliver Mueller-Heubach, and Marshall Goodman.

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Undamaged. 

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The important collection of H. Marshall Goodman Jr., Richmond, VA.
Quinn & Farmer, 6/23/2014, lot 359.